From: "Julia Evans" <julia@jvns.ca>
To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk,
"Julia Evans" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: suggest `git merge --continue`, not `git commit`
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:05:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2423115b-aed4-4af3-a200-15939824d1b5@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a716db0-4c40-4407-9237-f83c0dd37ad8@gmail.com>
>> During a merge conflict, we suggest using --continue to continue the
>> merge for rebase, revert, and cherry-pick.
>>
>> Change the `git merge` advice to be consistent.
>> Commit 367ff694281ce569edd8f6e444fc770f92f5d215 says that
>
> When we use the output of "git show -s --format=reference" when
> referring to previous commits, so this would be
>
> 367ff69428 (merge: add '--continue' option as a synonym for 'git
> commit', 2016-12-14)
Thanks, will fix in v2.
>> `git merge --continue` is intended to be a synonym for `git commit`,
>> and the `git merge` man page already suggests to use
>> `git merge --continue`.
>
> This looks like a sensible improvement. I wonder if we should fix the
> grammar at the same time so it says
>
> (use "git merge --continue" to conclude the merge)
>
> rather than
>
> (use "git merge --continue" to conclude merge)
Makes sense to me, will change that too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-06 13:02 [PATCH] status: suggest `git merge --continue`, not `git commit` Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-06 15:31 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-09 13:05 ` Julia Evans [this message]
2026-10-06 18:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-09 13:09 ` Julia Evans
2026-10-09 13:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-09 14:28 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-09 15:13 ` Julia Evans
2026-10-09 15:13 ` [PATCH v3] " Julia Evans via GitGitGadget
2026-10-09 15:18 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-09 18:39 ` Junio C Hamano
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